Word: speichers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outstanding among the artists who find just plain painting sufficient excitement is Eugene Speicher. His portrait of "Red" Moore, a brawny New England blacksmith seated in a Windsor chair by his anvil, preached no message at all, was a bargain , for any collector at any price...
Because France has won the last four races, one of her sons is confidently expected to repeat this year. Chief French hopes are Georges Speicher, last year's winner who has enough spare breath during the race for a steady stream of quips and japes; Roger Lapébie. bashful young Bordelais who won seven major events in 1933; Antonin Magne, laconic Auvergnat farmer who is called "The eternal runner-up''; Charles Pélissier, cameo-profiled idol of schoolboys. Dashing, excitable captain of this year's French team, Pelissier has won important races...
...lissier, Lapébie and Speicher are sprint specialists. Best climber in the race is Vicente Treuba, "Le Roi des Montagnes,'' a minuscule Spaniard who propels his 110-lb. body up the steepest slopes without leaving the saddle...
Size was the big thing about the Municipal Show. In 33 multicolored galleries were decently spaced 1,250 exhibits by some 450 artists whose styles ranged from the clatter of a Biberman to the dignified craft of a Watrous. Included were such familiar U. S. names as Sterne, Burchfield, Speicher, Hopper, O'Keeffe, Jo Davidson (who did a special LaGuardia bust) Benianimo Bufano, Mahonri Young...
Highlight of the exhibition was a cool grey-green canvas, square at the end of the gallery, called Summer Wind. Many critics hailed it as the most effective nude of the season, not excluding Eugene Speicher's magnificently painted figures at the Rehn Galleries (TIME, Jan. 22). Artist Brook's good friend Critic Edward Alden Jewell of the Times went further, called it "a particularly arresting embodiment of youth, animated by the sort of resilient 'lift' that sculptors know as the Greek inhalation." Alex Brook's paintings are no longer for amateur collectors. Admirers...